The Remei Group: With locations in Switzerland, India and Tanzania
Remei AG
Swiss Remei, headquartered in Rotkreuz, specialises in a sustainable value chain from fibre to finished textile and offers international B2B trading partners access to a unique economic system with private label collections made from organic cotton.
Initiate change
Remei follows the goal of creating value for all involved in textile supply chain and taking maximum care of people and the environment along the entire value chain. By offering traceable organic cotton textiles from a transparent supply chain, we are working on a systemic change in the textile supply chain and integrating small farmers into the textile supply chain.
From fibre to fashion. From farmer to consumer.
With own local organic farming organizations, the subsidiaries Remei India Ltd and Remei Tanzania Ltd, we work directly together with Indian and Tanzanian smallholders. Remei integrates the stage of fair trading principles for raw materials into the value chain, thus ensuring the availability of organic cotton from a reliable source and the traceability of finished textiles for its trading partners.
Milestones of Remei
Remei India Ltd
www.remei-india.com
The Indian organic farming company, founded in 1991, is an organic cotton producer at the beginning of the value chain from fibre to finished textile developed by Remei.
Remei India works with around 3,000 smallholders in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh in a participatory manner and promotes organic cotton cultivation in the region.
The Remei purchase guarantee provides the cotton farmers with planning security. With an additional premium of 15% above the local market price, Remei rewards performance in organic farming and gives farmers the freedom to develop themselves.
Remei India is responsible for the sustainable product quality of the organic cotton, from the distribution of the GMO-free seeds to the farmers, to accompanying and advising the farmers on organic cultivation and organic certification, to the ginning of the organic cotton, which the company delivers to the partner spinning mills in the Remei supply chain.
Remei Tanzania LTD
www.remei-tanzania.com
The Tanzanian organic cotton farming company at the beginning of the Remei value chain was founded in 1994. Like its Indian sister company, Remei Tanzania promotes organic cotton farming in the region, practices fair organic cotton trade and works participatively with around 2,000 smallholders from 32 villages in the Simiyu region in the Meatu and Maswa areas.
The Remei purchase guarantee gives cotton farmers planning security. With an additional premium of 15% above the local market price, Remei rewards performance in organic farming and gives farmers the freedom to develop themselves.
The harvest season for organic cotton in Tanzania starts at the end of May and ends in August; the main harvest season is in June and July. The cotton is bought from the villages’ warehouses. For ginning, the raw cotton is transported from the villages to the regional ginning plant to enter the Remei supply chain in the next step.
